by Rahman Osmani S.,

This study¹ combines theoretical considerations and empirical evidence collected from three locations where IFAD has been involved in projects targeting the rural poor and specifically women: India, with the Tamil Nadu Women Development Project and the Andhra Pradesh Tribal Development Project; and Nepal, with the Production for Rural Women Project.

• Executive summary
  
• Introduction
  
• Food security - a conceptual framework
  
• Household food security in the project areas
  
• Market orientation and household food security
  
• Project intervention, women and household food security
  
• Household food security and women's work burden: potential trade-offs
  
• Summary and conclusions
• Tables
  Technical appendix: regression
• Analysis of the determinants of food security
  
• References
  

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1/ This study was funded through supplementary funds provided by the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.